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The most controversial moments in Nigerian Music Industry

One of the biggest stories in Nigerian media this is the story of Oluwanishola Ogudu, the mother of Wizkid‘s first son’s experience as a co-parent with the singer.

Social media was awash and agog with chats between Wizkid and his first babymama, Shola. The chats which dated as far back as 2015 (3year ago) saw Shola literally begging Wizkid to see his kid.

Lots of people have come out to openly castigate Wizkid, labeling him a deadbeat father for not always not showing up for his son. But one thing we have all failed to really realize is that reading critically through those chats you would realise that Shola had succeeded in painting Wizkid the villain while she becomes the hero which is not totally true on many fronts.

Falz’s This Is Nigeria was an excellent allegory, depicting the sham of a society we live in, with the fallible tendencies we abhor but condone and it was a creative home run. Sadly, it’s both the age of pointless outrage and offence and The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) duly came up trumps in due time.

They claimed that Falz generalized his perception of Muslims and portrayed Muslim girls in a bad light in the video for the aforesaid song. Being a severely tribalistic country, with religious divides, constantly competing for attention, it quickly became a religious issue as MURIC wanted the video taken down.

Nigerian Artiste, Burna Boy, has sounded a warning to American model and cosmetic expert, Blac Chyna who is expected to be in Nigeria on Sunday, November 25th.

The American coming on the invitation by popular Nigerian US-based cosmetic entrepreneur, Dencia, is scheduled to attend the launch of a Whitenicious Body Cream Store in Lagos.

Whitenicous is a body lotion which apparently lightens the skin of its users and Burna Boyin a series of posts shared on his IG stories has asked Blac Chyna not to bring her ‘Poison’ to his home country Nigeria. The singer also warned that anyone who attends the event of perhaps patronizes the product might as well commit suicide.

The singer, however, said that the model is welcomed to party and shake her booty but is not welcomed to promote the product before going on to advice Nigerian ladies that their skin colour is beautiful.

Sex Dolls

The sex dolls moment was another moment that fueled the perpetually energized gender wars. Sex dolls were created to be an alternative to sex partners. The advantages were meant to be accessibility, prevention of rape and so forth.

The problem though was that the female versions of these sex dolls were the viral products at the time. The problem then became why men would have the audacity to replace women with sex dolls that can’t be emotive, can’t cook or clean in a world where we are trying to eradicate such narratives.

Bear in mind, women have been using dildos for ages. It was arguably the longest running saga of 2018 as conversations went down and up for about two weeks.